This Week’s Quote: “If you get in front of Congress and say, ‘If I’d had these powers, I could have stopped 9/11,’ and no one looks at them and says, ‘You didn’t stop Boston! And that was one guy on the terrorist watch list, another guy with a sloppy Facebook trail, what are you talking about?’ We need that level of response.” —Bruce Schneier

This Week’s Quote: “To your request of my opinion of the manner in which a newspaper should be conducted, so as to be most useful, I should answer, ‘by restraining it to true facts & sound principles only.’ Yet I fear such a paper would find few subscribers.” —Thomas Jefferson

This Week’s Quote: “However successful a man may be in his own business, if he turns from that and engages in a business which he does’t understand, he is like Samson when shorn of his locks: his strength has departed, and he becomes like other men.” —P.T. Barnum

This Week’s Quote: “Killing innocent people in retaliation for the sins of other people isn’t justice—it is terrorism. The terrorists were wrong to kill Americans to satisfy their grievances against American foreign policy. And to react to them by killing innocent foreigners would also be terrorism.” —Harry Browne

This Week’s Quote: “Venezuela reaches the final stages of socialism: No toilet paper…Venezuela has demonstrated that ‘Socialism of the 21st Century’ is pretty much like socialism in the 20th century.” —David Boaz

This Week’s Quote: “The similarity of arguments against the abolition of slavery and arguments against the abolition of government (as we know it) should shake the faith of all Americans who still labor under the misconception that ours is a ‘government of the people, by the people, for the people.’ From where I stand, it looks distressingly like an institutional complex that rests on the same shaky intellectual foundations as slavery.” —Robert Higgs